VITAE

EDUCATION

• B.S., Mathematics, University of Chicago, December 1958 (cum laude)
• Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, UC Berkeley, June 1963

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Lie groups & algebras, special functions, q-series, mathematical physics
• The management of research, such as research expertise in the Institute of Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, 1965-67
• Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, 1967-72
• Professor, University of Minnesota , 1972-
• Head, School of Mathematics , 1978-86
• Associate Director, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, 1987-94
• Associate Dean - Finance and Planning, Institute of Technology, 1994-97
• Acting Dean, Institute of Technology , 1995
• Director, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, 1997-2001

FELLOWSHIPS

• Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow (liberal arts), 1959-60
• NSF Predoctoral Fellow, (science) UC Berkeley, 1959-60
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant Institute, 1963-64
• University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, summer 1980
• University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, summer 1984

VISITING POSITIONS

• Visiting Member, Courant Institute, 1964-65
• Visiting Member, CRM, Universit'e de Montreal, 1973-74
• Visiting Member, IIMAS, National University of Mexico, June 1976

EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS

• Managing Editor, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 1975-81
• Associate Editor, Applicable Analysis, 1978-90
• MEB, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 1970-92
• Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 1973-75
• Co-Editor, IMA Volumes in Mathematics, 1987-94, 1997-2001
• MEB, Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA), 2005-
• MEB EqWorld, The World of Mathematical Equations   , 2005-
• Member of Advisory Panel, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 2006-2008
  

HONORS

• Appointed IT Distinguished Professor,  2005- 
• Cordelia Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, 2006-2007
  

COMMITTEES (NATIONAL and STATE)

• Applied Mathematics Panel, NSF Graduate Fellowships, 1978-80
• NSF EPSCOR panel (Mississippi), 1986
• CBMS Graduate Mathematics Enrollment Committee, 1986-87
• Organizing Committee, SIAM National Meeting, 1988
• NSERC site visit panel, (CRM, Montreal), 1992
• Local Arrangements Committee, AMS Summer Meeting, 1994
• NSF Industrial Postdoc Panel, 1994
• NSERC site visit panel, (CRM, Fields Inst.), 1994
• Program Director, SIAG/OS,1996-8
• External Review Committee, College of Engineering & Science, Clemson, 1997
• Member, CRM Advisory Committee, CRM, Universit'e de Montr'eal, 1997-2001
• AAAS External Review Committee, Mathematics Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1998
• Organizing Committee, SIAM National Meeting, 2001
• Member of the Electorate Nominating Committee, AAAS Section on Mathematics (A) 2003-6
• Chair of the Electorate Nominating Committee, AAAS Section on Mathematics (A) 2004-5

RESEARCH GRANTS

• NSF (Special fnctns., harm. anal., sep. of variables), 1966-71,1975-97
• NSF Co-Principal Investigator, IMA main grant, 1981-94, 1997-2001
• NSF (Mathematics Computation Laboratory), 1985
• NSA Co-Principal Investigator, (Applied Combinatorics), 1987-88
• ONR Co-Principal Investigator, (Appl. Comb., etc.), 1987-90
• ONR Co-Principal Investigator, Signal Processing), 1988
• NSA Co-Principal Investigator, (Signal Processing), 1988
• ARO Co-Principal Investigator, (Signal Processing), 1988
• AFOSR Co-Principal Investigator, (Signal Processing), 1988
• NSF Co-Principal Investigator (Supercomputer Cycles), 1988-89
• ARO Co-Principal Investigator, (Nonlin. Waves, etc.), 1988-94
• AFOSR Co-Principal Investigator, (Nonlin. Waves, etc.), 1988-91
• ARO Co-Principal Investigator, (Applied Statistics), 1989
• ONR Co-Principal Investigator, (Applied Statistics), 1989
• AFOSR Co-Principal Investigator, (Applied Statistics), 1989
• NSA Co-Principal Investigator, (Applied Statistics), 1989
• NSF Co-Principal Investigator, Industrial Postdoctorates, 1990-92
• NSA Co-Principal Investigator, (Time Series), 1990
• AFOSR Co-Principal Invest., (Radar/Sonar & Time Series), 1990
• ARO-DARPA Co-Principal Invest., (Radar/Sonar & Time Series), 1990
• ONR Co-Principal Investigator, (Radar/Sonar), 1990
• AFOSR Co-Principal Investigator, (Semiconductors), 1991
• ARO Co-Principal Investigator, (Semiconductors), 1991
• NSF Internat. Progs., Co-Prin. Inv., (IMA-INRIA wkshop), 1991
• NSA Co-Principal Investigator, (Applied Linear Algebra), 1991-92
• EPRI Co-Principal Investigator, (Environmental Studies), 1992
• NASA Co-Principal Investigator, (Environmental Studies), 1992
• AFOSR Co-Principal Investigator, (Signal Processing), 1992
• ARO Co-Principal Investigator, (Control), 1992
• ONR Co-Principal Investigator, (Flow Control), 1992
• NSF Co-Principal Investigator, (Control of Power Systems), 1993
• NSF Co-Principal Investigator, (Industrial Postdoc Tutorial), 1993
• ARO Co-Principal Investigator, (Control Theory), 1993
• NSF Co-Principal Investigator, (Computer Equipment), 1993-94
• NSA Co-Principal Investigator, (Probability), 1993-94
• AFOSR Co-Principal Investigator, (Probability), 1993-94
• Ford Co-Principal Investigator, (Postdocs in Indust. Math), 1992-94
• Honeywell Co-Principal Investigator, (Postdocs in Indust. Math), 1990-94
• 3M Co-Principal Investigator, (Postdocs in Indust. Math), 1990-94
• ARO Co-Principal Investigator, (Probability Theory), 1994
• NSF Principal Investigator, (Difference Equations Conference), 1994
• NSF Co-Principal Investigator, (Molecular Biology), 1994
• NSF Principal Investigator, (Integrable Systems Conference), 1999
• NIH Principal Investigator, (Immunolgy Workshop) 1998
• NSA Principal Investigator, (Codes, Systems and Graphical Models) 1999
• NIH Principal Investigator (Re-emerging Infectious Diseases Workshop) 1999
• ONR Principal Investigator (Multimedia) 2000-01
• ONR  Co-Prin. Inv., (Foundations of Computational Mathematics) 2002
• IBM  Co-Prin. Inv.,  (Foundations of Computational Mathematics) 2002
• NSF  Co-Prin. Inv., (Foundations of Computational Mathematics)  2002
• NSF  Co-Prin. Inv., (25th International Colloquium on Group Theory in Physics)  2004

EDUCATION GRANTS

• Ford Found., Co-Org., Twin Cities Urban Math Collaborative, 1985-86
• NSF, Co-Princ. Invest., Research Experiences for Undergrads, 1987-92
• IBM, Woksape computer education project, 1988-90
• IBM, SCRATCHPAD test, 1989-91
• Undergrad. Research Project, Chih-Jen Chen, 1990
• NSF Co-Prin. Inv., (Industrial Math for Undergraduates), 1992-94
• NSF Co-Prin. Inv., (Math Modeling for Instructors), 1994

OTHER SERVICE

• Co-founder, Math. Minority Program, 1980
• Co-founder, Math. Actuarial Program, 1980
• Co-founder, U. of M. Talented Youth Math. Proj. (UMTYMP),1980
• Established School of Math. Advisory Council,1980
• Co-founder, Minnesota Mathematics Mobilization,1986
• MAA Representative to IMA, 1987-90
• Part. in PAMRAN mtng, China Lake Naval Cntr., CA ,November 1987
• Co-organizer, Weinberger Symposium, October 1988
• Co-organizer, Natl. Meeting on Calculus Revision,October 1988
• Member, Computer Science Review Committee,March 1990
• IMA Grievance Officer,1990-1994
• Member, School of Math.~Executive Committee,1990-92
• Member, IT Promotion & Tenure Advisory Committee, 1991
• Member, Electrical Engineering Internal Review Committee, 1991
• Participant, Computer Science Internal Review , 1992
• University Senate , 1992-95
• Co-organizer, Friedman Symposium,January 1993
• Research Scholar Panel, Minn. Supercomputer Inst.,1993-95
• Geometry Center Internal Review Committee,1993
• Co-authored the proposal for establishment and funding of the Minnesota Center for Industrial Mathematics (MCIM)
• Geometry Center Interim Director Search Committee,1994
• University Grievance panel,1994
• Review panel for science/engineering college, Clemson University, 1997
• Co-organizer, Minisymposium on Handbooks for Special Functions and the World Wide Web, SIAM National Meeting, Stanford, July, 1997
• Headed the IT Industrial and Community Assistance Center project, including development of on-line data base of faculty expertise. 1996-97
• External Review Committee, Mathematics Department, University of Virginia, 1998
• Member of Advisory Committee for the XXIII International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics , Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, in Dubna (Moscow Region, Russia) July 26-31, 2000.
• External examiner for Ph.D. thesis of Shane N. Smith, University of Waterloo, 2002, ``Symmetry Operators and Separation of Variables for the DiracEquation on Curved Space-Times''
• Member, Search Committee for Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Institute of Technology, 2002
• Member, Institute of Technology  Consultative Committee, 2002-2005
• Chair, Institute of Technology  Consultative Committee, 2003-2004
• Member, Institute of Technology Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2002-2005
• Member, University of  Minnesota Head-Librarian Search Committee, 2001
• Chair of Local Organizing Committee, Foundations of Computational Mathematics 2002 (FoCM'02), August 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Member of Advisory Committee for the XXV International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Cocoyoc, Mexico, the first week of August 2004
• External Review Committee, Applied Mathematics Graduate Program,  University of Waterloo, 2002
• External Review Committee, Mathematics Department,  Penn State University, 2003
• Chair, Search Committee  for the Headship of the School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 2003
• Member, Search Committee  for the Dean of the Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, 2004
• Chair, Institute of Technology Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2004-2005
• University Senate, 2005-2008
• Vice president, Minnesota Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,  2002-2004
• President, Minnesota Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,  2004-2005
• External examiner for Ph.D. thesis of Jin Yue, Dalhousie University,  2005, ``Development of the invariant theory of Killing tensors defined on pseudo-Riemannian spaces of constant curvature''
• Co-organizer, IMA Summer 2006 Program: Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations, July 17 - August 4, 2006
• Member, I.T. Distinguished Professorship Selection Committee 2005-2006
• Member, Council on Liberal Education, 2005-2008
  

RESEARCH SUPERVISED

• Jung Sik Rno, Ph.D. 1973
• Peter DeLong, Ph.D. 1982
• Sanchita Mukherjee, Postdoctoral Fellow 1990-1992
• Sarah Post, Ph.D student 2006-
  

PRINCIPAL COLLABORATOR

• Professor E.G. Kalnins, Mathematics Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand